Linguistics MCQs by Sajjad Haider (Part3)

1. The inability to produce or comprehend the speech because of damage to

certain parts of brain is called
a. Anaphora
b. Aphasia
c. Cataphora
d. Diexes
2. When the baby is three month old, they can produce velar sounds /k/, /g/
and vowels /i/ and /u/ this stage is known as
a. Cooing
b. Babbling
c. Holophrastic
d. Telegraphic
3. By the six month, a baby can produce nasal and fricative sounds. This stage
is called
e. Cooing
f. Babbling
g. Holophrastic
h. Telegraphic
4. What is difference between acquisition of a language and learning of a
language?
a. Learning is natural while acquisition is conscious way of getting language
b. Acquisition is natural and learning is conscious effort to get language
c. Acquisition focuses on grammar while learning not
d. None
5. Which one is a traditional method of learning a language?
a. GTM
b. Audio lingual
c. Silent
d. Drill method
6. When you mix L1 and L2 and make another language is called
a. Interlanguage
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 b. Forelangue
c. Post language
d. Coding
7. While speaking one language if we shift to another language it is called
a. Code Mixing
b. Code Switching
c. Coding
d. None
8. In conversation, if we use the words of two languages it is called
e. Code Mixing
f. Code Switching
g. Coding
h. None
9. English is derived from which of the following major language
a. Latin
b. Greek
c. German
d. French
10.A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or
social group is called
a. Accent
b. Dialect
c. Bilingualism
d. Pidgin
11.Dialect is peculiar to vocabulary while accent is peculiar to _______ of a
specific group of people
a. Grammar
b. Spelling
c. Pronunciation
d. Tenses
12.A variety of language developed for some practical purpose among groups
of people who dont know each other languages is called

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 a. Pidgin
b. Creole
c. Dialect
d. Accent
13.When a language developed for some practical purpose goes beyond that
purpose and becomes the first language of social community, it is called
e. Pidgin
f. Creole
g. Dialect
h. Accent
14.The personal dialect of each individual speaker of a language is called
a. Register
b. Jargon
c. Diglossia
d. Idiolect
15.Variations in a language according to use in specific situations is called
e. Register
f. Jargon
g. Diglossia
h. Idiolect
16.Technical vocabulary associated with a specific field or group is called
i. Register
j. Jargon
k. Diglossia
l. Idiolect
17.When we speak two varieties of one language in a society, one is formal
and other is informal, it is called
m. Register
n. Jargon
o. Diglossia
p. Idiolect
18.The study of language in relation to brain is called

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 a. Sociolinguistics
b. Psycholinguistics
c. Neurolinguistics
d. Applied linguistics
19.The study of language in relation to society is called
e. Sociolinguistics
f. Psycholinguistics
g. Neurolinguistics
h. Applied linguistics
20.Scientific study of production, transmission, reception of speech sounds is
called
a. Phonetics
b. Linguistics
c. Phonology
d. Anthropology
21.According to Chomsky, the native speakers knowledge of his language, the
system of rules he has mastered, his ability to produce and understand a
vast number of new sentences is
a. Competence
b. Performance
c. Both none
d. None
22.Who gave the concept of competence and performance?
a. Chomsky
b. Sapir
c. D e Saussure
d. Watson
23.The concept of language and parole is given by
e. Chomsky
f. Sapir
g. D e Saussure
h. Watson

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 24.The set of all possible grammatical sentences in the language is called
a. Langue
b. Parole
c. Performance
d. None
25.The set of all utterances that have actually been produced in the language
is called
e. Langue
f. Parole
g. Competence
h. None
26.The major names related to the theory of Behaviorism are
a. Chomsky and De Saussure
b. Watson and De Saussure
c. Fried and Chomsky
d. Skinner and Watson
27.Big and small are the examples of________ antonyms
a. Gradable
b. Non-Gradable
c. Both
d. None
28.According to_____________ we perceive the world as our language leads
us to perceive it.
a. Sapir- Whorf hypothesis
b. Behaviorism
c. Performance and competence
d. Lange and parole
29.The forms of verb to be (is, are, am, was, were) are technically known as
a. Anaphora
b. Aphasia
c. Copula
d. Cataphora

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 30. The originator of theory of Structuralism is
a. De Saussure
b. Chomsky
c. Skinner
d. Watson
31.Language may be defined as the expression of thought by the means of
speech sounds. Who defines language in these words?
a. Chomsky
b. Skinner
c. Henry Sweet
d. De Saussure
32.The study of language ignoring its history is called
a. Diachronic study
b. Synchronic study
c. Both
d. None
33.The study of language through different periods of its history is called
a. Historical linguistics
b. Diachronic linguistics
c. Synchronic linguistics
d. A and B
34.A flood of French words came in to English in its___________
a. Old period
b. Middle period
c. Modern period
d. All
35.English is considered as lingua franca what does it means?
a. Easy language
b. Language of communication
c. Tough language
d. Old language
36.Omission of a word or more from a sentence is called

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 a. Elision
b. Ellipsis
c. Assimilation
d. Analogy
37.The study and analysis of text in regard to their linguistic and literary style is
called
a. Sociolinguistics
b. Stylistics
c. Psycholinguistics
d. Historical linguistics
38.If a poet writes dont instead of do not in their poem, they are applying
a. Syntactical Deviation
b. Morphological Deviation
c. Graphical Deviation
d. Grammatical Deviation
39.Which of the following links literary criticism to linguistics
e. Sociolinguistics
f. Stylistics
g. Psycholinguistics
h. Historical linguistics
40.Which one of the following accents is considered a standard accent of
British English for non native speakers?
a. Irish Accent
b. Scottish Accent
c. Received Pronunciation
d. Yorkshire Accent
41.The information given about the Subject in a sentence is called
a. Infinitive
b. Gerund
c. Participle
d. Predicate
42.This, That, These, and Those are

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 a. Reflexive Pronouns
b. Personal Pronouns
c. Demonstrative Pronouns
d. Relative Pronouns
43.Painting, Smoking, Fishing are the examples of
e. Infinitive
f. Gerund
g. Participle
h. Predicate
44.Class, Team, Committee are the examples of
a. Proper Noun
b. Material Noun
c. Collective Noun
d. Concrete Noun
45.Ahmad, sit down. Ahmad in this sentence is in
a. Accusative case
b. Genitive case
c. Dative case
d. Vocative case
46.If a noun is the indirect object of the verb it will be in
e. Accusative case
f. Genitive case
g. Dative case
h. Vocative case
47.There are ____________ basic skills of a language
a. 2
b. 4
c. 5
d. 6
48.The productive skills are
a. Listening and reading
b. Speaking and writing

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 c. Listening and writing
d. Speaking and listening
49.The entity to which anaphora is referred is called
a. Inference
b. Co-text
c. Antecedent
d. Context
50.The concept of LAD was given by
a. Chomsky
b. Skinner
c. De Saussure
d. G.B. Watson

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